Dalit Literature (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dalit Literature, literature about the Dalits, the oppressed class under Indian caste system forms an important and distinct part of Indian literature. Though Dalit narratives have been a part of the Indian social narratives since 11th century CE onwards, with works like Cekkilar's Periya Puranam documenting Dalit life, Dalit literature emerged into prominence and as a collective voice after 1960, starting with Marathi, and soon appeared in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil languages, through Self narratives, like poems, short stories and most importantly autobiographies known for their fierce and often stark realism, and for its contribution to the Dalit politics. It denounced as petty and false the then prevailing romanticism with the bourgeois Sadashiv pethi literature treated the whole Dalit issue, ignoring the social reality of appalling poverty and oppression of caste Hindus which was the result of the bourgeois character of this culture.